Attachment for tobacco-pipes



(No Model.)

H. SEIDLER.

ATTACHMENT FOR TOBACCO PIPES. No. 565,302. Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

W/T/VESSES: I INVENTOR ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HENRY SEIDLER, OF FORT BENTON, MONTANA.

ATTACHMENT FOR TOBACCO-PIPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,302, dated August 4, 1896.

Application filed January 9, 1896. Serial No. 574,825. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY SEIDLER, of Fort Benton, in the county of Ohoteau and State of Montana, have invented a new and Improved Attachment for Tobacco-Pipes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in attachments for tobacco-pipes and the like, and has for its object to provide a device of a simple and inexpensive construction, adapted for convenient attachment to pipes of various kinds and sizes, in position to cover the bowl of the pipe.

The invention contemplates certain novel features of the construction, combination, and arrangement of the various parts of the improved attachment, whereby the same is made simpler, cheaper, and otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use than other similar devices heretofore employed, all as will be hereinafter set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan View, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, showing a pipe having the im proved attachment applied thereto in position for use. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the form of the blank from which the cover is made, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of the blank from which the body of the attachment is formed.

In these views, 1 indicates the stem of a pipe, and 2 the bowl thereof.

3 indicates the body of the attachment, which will be by preference stamped from thin spring metal in the general form indicated in Fig. 4, being provided with oppositely-projected wings at at at its lower part, which wings are bent or curved forwardly, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, so as toform springs adapted to embrace the opposite sides of the bowl 2 of the pipe to hold the attachment in place thereon.

At its lower end the body 3 is formed with a central indentation and projections 5 at opposite sides thereof, said projections being adapted to fit down over the opposite sides of the upper portion of the stem 1 of the pipe, so as to prevent the body from turning when in use. The upper portion of the body 3 of the attachment is formed with longitudinal cuts 6, whereby a central spring-section is formed thereon, the upper end of which extends beyond the upper extremities of the side portions 8 S-of the body, as clearly indicated in Fig. 4, for purposes to be hereinafter specified.

The opposite side portions 8.8 of the body 3 are provided at their upper ends with eyes or loops 9, adapted to receive a pivot-pin 10, serving to secure the cover pivotally to said body. Said cover is formed, as indicated in Fig. 3, of a disk 11, of sheet metal, having perforations 12, and provided with an extension 13 in the form of an elongated strip, as clearly seen in Fig. 3, and said extension is bent at its junction with the disk 11 to form an eye or loop 14, adapted to receive the pivot-pin passed through the eyes or loops 9 on the upper portions of the sides 8 of the body. The main portion of the extension 13 is then bent upwardly and forward over the top of the cover 11, as indicated at 15 in Figs. 1 and 2, and is engaged under lugs 16, formed at the forward part of the disk 11, by stamping them up from the metal of which said disk is formed, after which the extremity of said extension is bent, as indicated at 17, to form a convenient handle or thumb-piece whereby the cover may be lifted.

When the cover is connected to the body of the attachment by means of the pivot-pin 10, it will be evident that the spring 7 will engage the rear part of the extension 13 in such a manner as to tend to normally hold the cover in a closed position over the mouth of the bowl 2 of the pipe, as clearly seen in the drawings.

The device constructed as above described is extremely simple and inexpensive, and may be applied to pipes of Various kinds and sizes, and when so applied said attachment may be conveniently removed from the pipe when desired for purposes of cleaning. a

It will also be obvious from the above description of the invention that the same is susceptible of considerable modification without material departure from its principles and spirit, and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact form of the device herein set forth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An attachment for pipes, comprising a body provided with spring-arms adapted to engage the sides of a pipe-bowl, and having at its upper part longitudinal slots, whereby a central spring and side portions are formed and a cover pivotally connected to said side portions, and arranged to be held normally closed by engagement with said spring, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination in an attachment for pipes, of a body portion provided with slots at its upper part forming a central spring and side portions, and spring-arms to engage the sides of a pipe-bowl and having a lower depending portion adapted to engage the upper part of the stem, and a cover pivotally connected to said side portions and normally kept closed by said central spring, as and for the purpose set forth.

An attachment for pipes, comprising a body having means for securing it to a pipe,

said body being. provided with longitudinal cuts at its upper part, whereby a central spring and side portions on opposite sides of the said spring are formed, and a cover for the bowl of the pipe, pivoted between the side portions of the body and arranged to be held in a closed position by said spring, substantially as set forth.

4. An attachment for pipes, comprising a body having means for securing it to a pipe, and provided at its upper part with longitudinal cuts, whereby a central spring and side portions on opposite sides of said spring are formed, a cover having an extension upon its rear part, said extension being carried up and forward over the cover and secured at its front end to said cover, said cover being pivoted at its rear part between the side portions of the body and having its extension arranged to be engaged by said spring on the body, to hold the cover normally in a closed position, substantially as set forth.

HENRY SEIDLER.

Witnesses:

DANIEL BRERE'roN, J. \VARD Hus]; 

